The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-16
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Door-latches will always work with perfect
freedom if the housekeeper or owner will pass
around regularly once a week and apply small
drop of oil to the face of each.
Oxidized silver can be made bright and clean
by boiling in solution of forty parts of water
and one part Of snphuric acid, or by heating it,
and then dipping it in the solution.
For rice waf1es take one quart of boiled rice
one quart of milk, one quart Of flour, one table
spoonful OF butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful
of salt, half teacupful of yeast. Mix together
the milk and -four; then stir in the rice and the
eggs. beaten light; put in the yeast last Serve
with powdered sugar and cinnamon
This is the caterers recipe for molasses candy:
One quart molasses, quarter pound brown sugar,
two tablespoonfuls best essence of lemon. Let
the molasses boil. then put in the sugar; when
half done, put i'll the butter: add the lemon when
you take it off the fire. Boil hour, stirring
1t. Pour into buttered plates when done, and
keep in q cold place.
curative for Group and diphtheria is recon-
mended by report to the French Academy
The process OF treatment consists as follows: A
tablespoonful each OF turpentine and liquid tar
are placed in tin pan over a larger pan. The
mixture is set on fire and q dark, resinous smoke
arises, which the patient inhales with pleasure
The ibrinous membrane soon become detached
and the patient RECEIVERS.
For frozen water in pumps run a small lead
tube down far enough to rest on the ice, and
pour hot water through it by the aid of a funnel
at the top. The hot water, by it's weight runs
at once the ice, melts it rapidly, the tube by
its weight, settling fast the ice melts. and
pouring the hot stream right it. If the hot
water is poured into the pump without the tube
it will not reach the ice but remain at thef top.
being lighter than the cold water below nearest
the ice
For linen travelling bag take two pieces Of
linen twenty eight inches long and nineteen
inches wide. Cut circular piece to fit in both
ends. Make the handle twelve inches long and
four incl W thov
will be double Make the hens one inch and
half wide, lap one hem over the other at the
ends, then stitch the circular pieces in Button
it with three buttons, one in the middle, the
others four inches each side Of middle one Put
the handles on each side Of the hem in the CEN
ter. Leave elk inches between the two ends of
| the handle. Trim with braid or have it plain.
For bread and butter pudding cut stale
loaf of bakers bread rather thin. crust and all,
and butter lightly on both sides; butter baking
dish and -four it lightly, lay single layer of the
slices of bread all over the dish, sides and all.
Wash and pick one-half pound of currants, pick
and stone one-half pound OF raisins, and slice
| very thin two ounces Of citron, and mix
| thoroughly and scatter thinly over the bread
| and butter Now put another layer of bread
| then another layer of fruit, until all are used
| and one half pound Of sugar. and pour it over
| the pudding; put the baking dish in pan of
water and let it cook for three quarters Of an
hour in a moderately heated oven. 1t can be
l served eltner not or cOlQ.
For a sick room the sand bag is invaluable
Get some clean, fine sand; dry it thoroughly
| in q kettle on the stove. Make bag about
eight inches square Of flannel, fill it with the dry
sand; sew the opening carefully together and
cover the bag with cotton or linen. This will
| prevent the sand from sitting out, and will also
enable you to heat the bag quickly in placing it
| in the oven or even on the top of the stove
After once using this you will never attempt "a
warm tine feet or hands Of sick person with a
bottle of hot water or brick. The sand holds
| the heat q long time, and the bag can be tucked
up to the back without hurting the invalid It
is good plan to make two or three of the bags
and keep them on hand, ready for use at any
time when needed.
A paper should always have border of suffi-
cient width to give character. This border
should be lighter than the paper, except in q
very lofty room. when darker border apparent
" lowers the ceiling. and makes the room easier
to furnish. A single strip of ordinary paper for
the sidewalks, harmonizing in tint, but holder
in design, put around next the ceiling horizont
ally. makes pretty and inexpensive finish A
stripe about an inch wide. Of dark paper, be
/ tween this border and the main wall-coverng
| may take the place of picture moldiug and
will have to be used when the molding is next the
| ceiling, as it sometimes is. II ought ALWAYS te
be between the border and the wali-screen A
paper should be light-colored nearly always
that is to say, in small rooms, in dark rooms
| or in rooms where most of the picture-frames
| are dark. room is generally made gloomy BY
dark paper. The pattern should be small, con
| ventionalized and harmoniously colored, ne
strong contrasts being admitted.
Harper's Bazaar: In city life the health of tn.
house is in the pipes, and if anything is wrong
| in Them there is death in the cup. But many
woman hesitates to call in the plumber lest
when he goes, his bill should take the house with
it, pipes and all. If she feels in this way, and
yet suspects leak that may be letting in a:rs,a
liberia and typhoid cir on her family, let her bu,
vial Of the oil of peppermint couple o
ounces, and. having appointed others to f,f1oy
the course of the pipes through other narts o
i the house. let her go herself to the tonmost ba
sin of the topmost focr, closa the door of tn
+ room before uncorking tae vial, fill the basi
there full of scaldinx water, into which her PEI
permint oil ssan be poured. and then pull up th
stopper sad let the contents Of the basin escape
rs r<uaL If the other people, who are followin
4 tde course OF the pipes. detect nowhere at tn
b remaining basins, or along the walls. or at an
Q expossd POINTS the odor Of the peppermint oil
n tAen she may be tolerably sure that there is Q
: Teak in the pipes. For whore there is the mos
inn1 .tesimal pin hole Of leak the powerful ar
o ma yill force its way and be at recognized
d whereupon the plumber, regardless Of expense
. should be summoned without loss of time.